Panes

The first time you start OmegaT, the main window displays the following default layout:

Figure 2. Default OmegaT layout on macOS

Use the various options in the View menu and move the various panes around to obtain the layout that fits your workflow best.

This is where you type and edit your translations.

The text is split into numbered segments. You can scroll through the document and double-click on any segment to open and edit it.

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|Dissimuler les balises<segment 2148 ¶>

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When enabled, all formatting in the source segments are hidden.

The match viewer shows the segments from your translation memories that are most similar to the segment you are currently translating.

Matches are taken from both the internal project translation memory created in real time as you translate the project, and external memories you have imported from previous projects or received from third parties. See the Use translation memories how-to for details.

When you enter a segment, the first fuzzy match (the one with the highest match percentage) is automatically selected. You can press C + 2, 3, 4, or 5 , or use Edit Select Match , to select a different match .

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Application Folder
|<segment 1879 ¶>

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1. Top Folder
Dossier racine
<50/50/66% Orphan segments (+1 more)>

2. Configuration Folder
Dossier de configuration
<50/50/66% >

The selected fuzzy match is highlighted in bold . Words missing from the segment you are translating are shown in blue , and adjacent parts in green (when the adjacent part is a space, as above, the part is left uncolored).

The match also displays three matching percentages.

These percentages have the following meaning, in order:

You can change how matches are displayed or sorted. See the TM Matches preferences for details.

Use Edit Replace With Match or Selection C + R to replace the translation field with the match, or Edit Insert Match or Selection C + I to insert it at the cursor position.

This pane shows terms from your glossary files that correspond to terms in the current segment. The glossary files are located in the project’s glossary folder.

The source term is displayed before the “=” sign and the target terms after it. If the entry contains comments, they are numbered and displayed on separate lines below the terms. Terms found in the writable glossary are shown in bold, while those from other glossaries are presented as regular text.

Project = Projet
1. Projet de traduction

Folder = Dossier
                  

The glossary file name is shown as a tooltip when hovering over the terms.

The comment field of an entry can contain hyperlinks, which can be clicked for further reference.

Links to local files (file:///PATH/filename) open in the associated program. Web addresses (https://...) open in the default browser.

You can select a term in the glossaries pane and right click on it to insert it into the translation.

Use View Mark Glossary Matches to underline glossary matches.

You can then right-click on the underlined word in the source segment to open a pop-up menu listing the translations available in your glossaries. Select one to insert it at the current cursor position in the segment.

You can use the glossary preferences to fine-tune how the glossaries are displayed. See the Glossaries preferences for details.

Modifications to any glossary file in the glossary folder are immediately recognized by OmegaT and displayed in the glossaries pane.

OmegaT includes one writable glossary file per project. Use Edit Create Glossary Entry... C + S + G to add terms to that file.

See the Glossaries appendix for details.

This pane shows terms from your dictionary files that correspond to terms in the current segment. The dictionary files are located in the project’s dictionary folder. See the Dictionaries preferences for details.

If you have enabled and configured at least one machine translation engine this pane shows the suggestions for the current segment produced by the available engines. When suggestions from more than one translation engine are available,

Use Edit Replace with Machine Translation C + M to replace the translation of the current segment with the selected translation engine.

The selected engine name is assigned to the Origin property of the current segment.

If there is a connection or authentication error with a machine translation engine, the status bar at the bottom of the window will briefly display status message.

Make sure the service is enabled and your credentials are entered correctly. If they are, you may need to contact the service provider for assistance. Similarly, an error such as Unable to parse translation service response suggests that there may be a communication problem between your system and the provider's server.

See the Machine Translation preferences for details.

A source segment that appears in multiple locations in the project may require several different translations depending on context.

Use Edit Create Alternative Translation to register an alternative translation if the current translation of the segment is not suitable. The entered translation will then be treated as an alternative translation of the source segment.

Use Edit Use as Default Translation to define one of the alternatives—the most common or likely, for instance—as the default translation.

This pane is an editable space where you can add notes to the currently active segment.

This lets you come back to it later to review the translation, check that alternative translations are correct or, in shared projects, ask colleagues for their opinion, for example.

Use Go To Next Note C + A + N and Go To Previous Note C + A + P to browse through the notes.

Use Go To Notepad C + A + N to enter the pane and add or modify a note.

Use Go To Editor C + A + E to go back to the Editor.

Some file formats, such as the PO format, can contain comments for the translator to add context to the translation. Such comments are displayed here.

All segments have properties. The properties are displayed in this pane.

Common properties include:

The bottom of the main window is the status bar.

The left side of the status bar displays information on project actions or error messages.

The right side of the status bar indicates whether the cursor is locked within the segment (see the Cursor lock setting) and whether the cursor overwrites the existing text (see the Overwriting setting). It also displays progress information.

Click on the figures to alternate between displaying progress as numbers or percentages.